Explained: How Tory MPs' no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson will work

Boris Johnson with wife Carrie during the Jubilee celebrations, at which he was booed by royalist crowds. Photograph: PA

BORIS Johnson is to face a confidence vote after a dozens of Tory MPs withdrew support for his leadership.

Critics of the Prime Minister seized on the Sue Gray report into lockdown-busting parties and the Prime Minister’s response to it as the trigger for submitting letters calling for a vote.